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oeli Klein’s favorite wedding song fills all spaces with Hashem’s light

The song “Memale Kol Almin” was originally composed by Rav Eliezer Shlomo Schick of Breslov ( known as the Mohorosh) about 40 years ago and was discovered after his passing in 2015. Rabbi Meir Duvid Farkas, a chazzan and Breslov talmid, popularized the soul-stirring song (“Ein shum metzius mibaladecha Yisbarach — nothing really exists in the world except for Hashem…”) the following year on his album Tzadikim, giving it a leibedig finale with the famous Shlomo Carlebach niggun that became an anthem for positivity (the one with the added words “Ma shehaya haya, ha’ikar lehatchil mehatchalah — Whatever was, was, the important thing is to start anew.”) With Reb Meir Duvid’s permission, composer Shaya Gross added a hora part to the song with a compelling beat that makes it into a dance niggun as well.

“Singing this at weddings, together with the chassan and the mechutanim is very moving for me,” says singer Yoeli Klein, who re-recorded the popular new version. “Yes, they are building a new house, but really the Ribbono shel Olam is doing everything. Nothing is real besides Him, and as they are moving forward to set up a new Yiddishe home, we’re singing that it is all Him, the Memalei Kol Almin.”

(Originally featured in Mishpacha Issue 705)